The fallout continues from Google’s recent admission that its Street View camera cars inadvertently collected fragments of unencrypted data. A German regulator has asked Google to turn over one of the hard drives used to store data collected in that country. “Up until now, all we have to go on at this point is what Google has told us that they have collected,” Johannes Caspar, who oversees data protection for the city-state of Hamburg, said in The New York Times. “But until we can inspect one of the hard drives ourselves, we will not know to what extent what kinds of data have actually been stored.” Google says it will destroy the data in question, but has not yet agreed to turn over its hard drives for inspection. Google has already destroyed data mistakenly collected in Ireland. Link to full story in The New York Times.
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